Westminster
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The seat of the English Parliament, referenced as the location where the Short and Long Parliaments met and which Charles ultimately abandoned.
His subsequent attempt to construe the Treaty to his own advantage led to the threat of a new war, and on April 13, 1640, by the advice of Strafford, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who had come to England in September, 1639, and had from that date become Charles’s principal counsellor, an English Parliament met at Westminster.
The five took refuge in the city, which rose in their defence, and Charles, finding the forces of the city arrayed against him, left Westminster on January 10.
The army, on its part, on August 6, took military possession of Westminster.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The location fixed by Magna Carta as the seat of Common Pleas, and site of St Stephen's chapel referenced in the discussion of purveyance of labour.
For example, the Crown’s right to hold “Common Pleas” was impliedly admitted, when the barons asked and obtained that these should be tried in some certain place (that is, at Westminster).
Stephen’s chapel, Westminster, to be at our wages as long as shall be necessary’;
A reward of two marks was offered for each outlaw’s head brought to Westminster.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The royal hall where the 1253 sentence of excommunication against violators of the charters was pronounced.
“The year of our Lord a thousand two hundred and fifty-three, the third day of May, in the great Hall of the King at Westminster, in the presence, and by the assent, of the Lord Henry, by the Grace of God King of England, and the Lords Richard, Earl of Cornwall, his brother, Roger (Bigot) Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, marshal of England, Humphrey, Earl of Hereford, Henry, Earl of Oxford, John, Earl …
* * * In modern times, as proceedings are removable from hence into the king’s superior courts, by writ of pone or recordari, in the same manner as from hundred courts and courts-baron, and as the same writ of false judgment may be had in nature of a writ of error, this has occasioned the same disuse of bringing actions therein.
In some cities the highest municipal officer yet bears this name, as the high bailiff of Westminster.
Institutes of Roman Law
The seat of the English royal courts, discussed alongside circuit/assize practice as an analogue to Roman court terms.
with this difference, however, that the same judges presided both in their own court held at Westminster, and on assize, where they acted under commissions to try cases in the county in which the cause of action arose.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
London location where the Common Pleas became permanently seated.
Meantime the judges of the Common Pleas were sitting—as they did ever since till the Court of Common Pleas was absorbed the other day in the High Court of Justice—at Westminster, and at Westminster only.
The Genius of the Common Law
Seat of the common-law practitioners contrasted with the coexisting Chancery and Admiralty jurisdictions.
It is doubtful whether in any case the practitioners at Westminster could have learnt much from them;